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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 4 pgs w/ two bw illustrations, text. Includes sample page of 'The Canterbury Tales' with illustration. Details forthcoming publications of 'The Four Gospels,' 'The Ladies Handbook Of Etiquette' and 'Abd-er-raman In Paradise.'. Good- (scuffs, smudges & darkening; two diagonal tears to upper edges; small tear to back, lower edge. long diagonal crease to upper edge/corner; horizonal crease to lower portion from previous fold. foxing to back upper edges. coffee-like stain to front & interiro.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter bound in creme vellum over patterned boards. With 55 pages of text and illustrations, and limited to 500 numbered copies. The text is reprinted from an 1838 edition. With the bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books affixed to the front pastedown.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, 1928. Limited edition of 500 copies. Etchings by Hester Sainsbury. Contemporary wood engraved bookplate of Michael A. E. Franklin. Very interesting bookplate. Also another later bookplate of Colin Malcolm Paul. Pages edges uncut. Publishers quarter vellum and printed paper covered boards. vellum very slightly dusty and marked, else very good copy. An attractive publication. 55 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$132.34 + shipping
Description: By A. F. (1838). With engravings by Hester Sainsbury. Pp. [x]+56(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), 4 plates, title page decoration; f'cap. 8vo; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, floral patterned pink papered boards, a trifle foxed, parchment faintly discoloured; fore and bottom edges uncut; ribbon marker; free endpapers lightly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies on English hand-made paper. Chanticleer 56. *Attributed to Arthur Freeling. From the library of Sir Thomas Ramsay, with his discreet ownership stamp in blind on the upper free endpaper. Later from the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown. 'Despite the passage of time and the inevitable slight variations in manners, the publishers feel that the precepts laid down in this small book for the young lady of 1838 will still hold much interest for her prototype of 1928' [publisher's note].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$133.90 + shipping
Description: Small Octavo. 55 pages. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is #282. (250 each for England and America) The reissuance of this early 19th century book advising women of the South on proper manners demonstrates the persistence of the image of the Victorian lady into the 20th century. The novels of Catherine Gore relied on these social distinctions also called "silver fork fiction" since those who used anything other than silver when dividing fish clearly were of a lower social class. A very good copy bound in 1/4 vellum over pink and red decorative paper covered boards, only light finger soiling. Very nice.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 500 copies, duodecimo size, 67 pp., with original dust jacket. We find etiquette books such as this a delight to read, providing as they do glimpses into a world long gone. This book, for example, contains a chapter on the then-new "waltzing" with a warning to parents about the perils of unmarried couples touching. The Contents lists such topics as "Introductions", "Visitors and Visiting", "Waltzing", "Marriage", "Servants", and "the Philosophy of certain Fashionable Observances". This charming publication by the Golden Cockerel Press contains four engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury (1890-1967) who, although apparently had no formal art training, provided the illustrations for the first book of the Favil Press, a small collection of Sainsbury's poems, among many others (see Horne p. 381). She "became a successful artist and print-maker in the 1920s, being known among other things for using an engraving tool that cut multiple parallel lines rather than the usual one. She made fine art prints and illustrations by engraving both copper and wood. The author Philip Neil describes her engravings as 'fresh, supple, and irresistibly charming' " (n.b., quote from Wiki). Arthur Freeling, although having penned several books on etiquette including this work, as well as a "Railway Companion", never earned an entry into the DNB (Dictionary of [British] National Biography) and therefore we are unable to shed any light on his life. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter bound in parchment with special printed boards, gilt lettering on the shelfback, fore- and bottom edges uncut, "Publisher's Note" dated 1928 setting forth the hope that "despite the passage of time and the inevitable slight variation of manners" the book would still prove worthy, followed by the author's "Preface to the Edition of 1838", four copper engravings throughout the text, original pink ribbon marker; Caslon O.F. type on hand-made paper, duodecimo size (7" by 4.75"), pagination: [i-x], 1-55, blank [56], colophon [57]. Dust jacket of rose-coloured paper with black lettering and decorative border around title on the front; unclipped although no price printed; the volume sold new for 15 shillings in 1928. ___CONDITION: Volume could almost be deemed fine, the parchment shelfback without wear (although with light dustiness), the paper boards clean (having been protected by the dust jacket), the text block strong and sturdy with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; light foxing to the text block edges, light offsetting to the front endpaper, the ribbon marker still attached but frayed at both the top, where it is attached to the book, and at the bottom. The unclipped dust jacket a bit better than good, slight overall edgewear and light dustiness, sunning to the spine, and a prior owner affixed cello tape at the head and tail of the spine (both recto and verso) as well as at the bottom of the back panel (verso only) where there is a smal chip with a short closed tear. Even with these minor issues still a lovely copy of a charming publication, done in the seventh year of the Golden Cockerel Press. ___CITATION: Chanticleer no. 56. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.